How Often Can You Get Microneedling?

Microneedling is a great way to stimulate collagen and elastin production deep within the skin tissues. Many factors determine how often you can get this done, including the type of microneedling treatment, why you’re having it done, and the condition of your skin.

To understand more about what the right treatment frequency for you might be, we need to delve a little deeper into the subject.

Why, What, and How Often Can You Get Microneedling?

• Why get microneedling?
• What are the different types of microneedling?
• Why and what determines how often you can get microneedling done

Why get microneedling?

Microneedling promotes increased levels of elastin and collagen within the skin. These are crucial building blocks that are used during the cellular production process. The more of each that you have, the better the skin’s structure and appearance.

Promoting skin cell renewal can be extremely effective, especially in helping reduce the appearance of scars—including acne scars—large pores, stretch marks, fine lines, wrinkles, and other skin anomalies. It can also be used by a dermatologist to treat certain types of alopecia.

What are the different types of microneedling?

The therapy has evolved from its traditional roots in ancient Chinese medicine to the cutting-edge options we use today.

The process can be grouped into different areas:

• Traditional microneedling: This utilizes tiny needles on a roller—usually in a pen-like device—which is then gently passed over the skin. These cause minute traumatic injuries, to which the skin responds by increasing collagen and elastin.
• Radiofrequency microneedling: RF microneedling takes the traditional process a step further by adding heat into the process. A deeper stimulating option, fractional RF microneedling, is also available.
• Microneedling with platelet-rich plasma: An advanced treatment that can be very effective for deep acne scars. It utilizes platelets from your own blood, adding them into the microneedling process to target natural, personalized, increased cell production.
• Combination microneedling-dermabrasion: This combines the power of collagen and elastin therapy with a skin resurfacing treatment.

Treatments are also defined by how deep the needles puncture the skin. The longer they are, the more trauma the skin experiences.

Why and what determines how often you can get microneedling done

How often you can have a microneedling treatment is driven by why you’re having it and what the type of treatment is.

For light microneedling, such as that done at a beauty salon, a gap of 4-6 weeks between sessions is recommended. You’ll likely have 3-4 treatments initially, followed by top-up sessions 2 or 3 times each year. This is ideal for anti-aging and skin rejuvenation. It’s not recommended to have more frequent treatments, because the skin needs time to go through the healing process, which is what stimulates elastin and collagen production.

For scar treatment and targeting pigmentation issues, you might be advised to have more frequent treatments—at least at the beginning of the process. Exactly how often will be determined by the condition of your skin, its type, the method of microneedling, and the advice of your dermatologist. The average time between sessions is around 4 weeks. However, this will be carefully assessed as the treatment progresses. Some people might have further treatments at the 2-week mark—others may be better waiting for up to 6 weeks.

The most important takeaway is that everyone’s skin is different, and this is what will definitively determine how often you can get microneedling done.

Contact Bayou City Dermatology for Definitive Advice on How Often You Can Get Microneedling Done

At Bayou City Dermatology, we use microneedling to target many skincare requirements. This might be medical, such as treating acne scars, or perhaps for anti-aging or rejuvenation. Whatever the reason, you can rest assured that every microneedling treatment comes with explicit advice as to how long to leave between sessions. 

Microneedling, as with every type of skincare at Bayou City, is tailored to your specific skin requirements. 

Discover more about us and our personalized approach to the body beautiful at https://www.bayoucitydermatology.com/